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NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating a possible bias incident in which an off-duty New York City police officer who is Muslim says she and her 16-year-old son were harassed. Police tell WABC-TV ( http://7ny.tv/2gWEs5F ) the alleged incident happened after the officer, who...

NEW YORK (AP) — An off-duty correction officer has been fatally shot in New York City. Officials say the unidentified 25-year-old woman was shot Sunday night while sitting in a car outside a home in the Flatlands neighborhood of Brooklyn. She was pronounced dead at the scene. It...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who said he was investigating a conspiracy theory about Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring out of a pizza place fired an assault rifle inside the Washington, D.C., restaurant on Sunday injuring no one, police and news reports said. Metropolitan...

NEW YORK (AP) — Police are investigating a possible bias incident in which an off-duty New York City police officer who is Muslim says she and her 16-year-old son were harassed. Police tell WABC-TV ( http://7ny.tv/2gWEs5F ) the alleged incident happened after the officer, who...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Teenagers, the son of a local sheriff's deputy and young artists who loved music are among the dozens of people who died when a fire broke out at an underground dance party in a warehouse that visitors called a death trap. The victims of a party Friday...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Shelley Mack says she didn't know the converted Oakland warehouse known as the "Ghost Ship" was an illegal residence until after she moved in, when she was instructed to tell visitors it was a 24-hour workspace for artists. The building was often freezing...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's grinding budget crisis is taking a toll in courtrooms where overburdened attorneys have denied legal counsel to poor defendants, at museums reeling from layoffs and admission hikes, and at state universities and colleges grappling with steep...

BOSTON (AP) — Presidents of eight private colleges in the U.S. were paid more than $2 million in 2014, the most ever to hit that mark, according to a new study. They join a total of 39 chiefs who made more than $1 million that year, passing the previous high of 32 the year...

BOSTON (AP) — A new study finds that eight private colleges paid their presidents more than $2 million in 2014, the most ever to hit that mark. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported the finding Sunday in its annual ranking of pay for the leaders of private colleges. The...